The latest indie book reviews from Self-Publishing Review
Review: Women’s Work by Kari Aguila
Review: A Far Cry From Living by Luke Prochnow
Luke Prochnow strikes an unusual balance of darkness in his post-apocalyptic Western novella A Far Cry From Living. In a world reminiscent of others like Fallout‘s New Vegas and other “Westernpunk” works, the book is unflinching in its descriptions of the violence, murder, paranoia and slavery, but makes the right choice of situations to view, and the right levels of horror and brutality for each chapter.
Descriptions are never egregious or gratuitous, focusing on the slow, dry feel of an empty and dead desert populated by the desperate and lonely, and sorrow and regret permeate the entire book in […]
Review: House of Mirrors by S. Israel
In the vein of Story of O, Linda’s appetite for erotic adventure opens up as walls become transparent and she becomes the voyeur or the participant in a series of sexual vignettes with both a woman, Gloria, and two men, Dave and Joe, before they are released from the house […]
Review: Hot Minnesota Sex Death by M. R. Nesheim
Review: Epic Sloth – Tales of the Long Crawl by Philip Gaber
Philip Gaber’s new anthology “Epic Sloth – Tales of The Long Crawl” yet again hits the mark with post-Postmodern American writing. There isn’t much of this sort of literature around any more and this stuff needs to exist. From Kerouac to Selby to Yates to Palahniuk, Gaber pulls together the sum of these writers to pour out anew what it means to be a young disillusioned man in today’s America.
There is a sure East Coast, self-effacing vibe to this writing, but there are tales set all over the US with all kinds of people involved. Young Americans seem to […]
Review: The Divine Manual by Dr. Wallace Ching
What helps this book’s credibility is that Wallace Ching isn’t just an author spouting things he’s learned from others. He’s been […]
Review: The Hopeless Pastures by Keith Soares
As the mysterious plague RL2013 pushes humanity to the brink of extinction, where governments ensconce and bury the remaining citizens in distant walled cities. No phone lines, no internet, no questions, no disobedience, the world is painted as a fearful and empty place outside of the clinically-white walls of each city, as modern-day lepers nicknamed “zombies” emerge from places decried as “dirty”, and people are shut […]
Review: Greta Smart Figures It Out by Diane Dunning
This is basically the story of Greta fretting over the fact […]